station to station ( the song )- 1st or 2nd half?

Interesting (to me anyway) that there's no keyboards on that track, all guitars.

I had multiple "aha" moments with W is the W: I had a dubbed cassette of Station to Station in my first car, which I listened to countless times without ever knowing that the song was a cover. A couple of years later I stumbled across the Johnny Mathis version, still at a stage in my life when Mathis was fatally unhip, and loved that; still more years went by before I heard Nina Simone.

These events dovetail with my obsession with Bryan Ferry's version of "These Foolish Things" and subsequent discovery of Billie Holiday.

I found out it was a cover, never heard any other version, still can't quite imagine it.

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the first half of this song makes me so wistful for the days of my youth when I first heard it. remarkably good Bowie album imo